Mondays
The John Sinclair Radio Showplus Fly By Night with Steve The FlyTuesdaysThe Blues Show with Bruce Pingreeplus Blues From the Red Rooster Lounge with Cary WolfsonWednesdaysMessin’ With The Blues with Leslie Kerosplus Sounds of Blue with Bob PutignanoThursdaysBeyond The Groove Yard with George Kleinplus Ancestor Worship with John SinclairFridaysSounds of Blue with Bob Putignanoplus The Soul Lucille ShowSaturdays
The Dr. Doo Wop Show with Bill Levyplus Party Train with Linda Lexy
Sundays
Mood Indigo with Leslie Kerosplus Jazz Lunatique with David Kunian

Radio Free Amsterdam’s IndieGoGo crowd-funding project under the direction of the John Sinclair Foundation, a big part of which is to finance a complete makeover of our RFA website and program service and make our programming, information and archives more accessible to our listeners, didn’t work out so well.

But the big birthday party fund-raiser thrown by our friends in Ann Arbor was a smashing success and raised almost half the funds we were seeking, so we are able to go ahead with our plans and overhaul the radio station in the next couple of months. Look for great new changes in the near future, and big thanks to the people who made this upgrade possible.

In November George Klein’s Sunday edition of Beyond The Groove Yard is replaced by Leslie keros’s new show, Mood Indigo, while her Messin’ With The Blues program continues on Wednesdays. Tune in to our 24/7 Stream for continuous wall-to-wall programming.

George Klein presents an hour of splendid music from Riverside and Jazzland Records in the 1950s & 60s from Wynton Kelly, Barry Harris, Yusef Lateef, the Thelonious Monk Orchestra, Nat and Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, and Sonny Red.

TENOR MADNESS
ANCESTOR WORSHIP 14

Episode 14 continues our investigation of the recordings of Sonny Rollins on Prestige Records in 1956 including his session with the Miles Davis rhythm section and, on “Tenor Madness,” a tenor saxophone battle with John Coltrane as well.

Lucille DJ is back all the way from controradio-fm in the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk and a guest spot by John Sinclair with tunes by Sugar Pie DeSanto, Paul Humphrey & His Cool Aid Chemists, The Dynamics, Gladys Knight & The Pips, The Memphis Horns, the Staple Singers, Lyn Collins, Mabel John, Bill Withers, Yvonne Fair, and Sam Most.

Saturday, November 5STAND BY ME
THE DR. DOO WOP SHOW 19

Dr. Doo Wop is back with another of his great programs for Radio 100 in Amsterdam from the turn of the century with music by The Chortles, Ben E. King, The Cyrenes, The Dixie Cup, The Crystalaires, Rosie & The Originals, Etta James, Ruby & The Romantics, The Marvelettes, Bill Levy, John Lee Hooker, and Ruth Brown.

PARTY LIGHTS
PARTY TRAIN WITH LINDA LEXY 23

Detroit’s own Linda Lexy is driving the Party Train all the way from Funky D Studios in Royal Oak, where she’s playing music in Episode 23 starting with her theme song by Tino Gross and followed by Booker T & The MGs, Chuck Berry, The Valentines, Claudine Clark, Edwin Starr, Dyke & The Blazers, Sonrize, Charles Bradley, Clarence Curvan, Ray J Jones, the Hard Drivers featuring Vivian Lee, Willie Rogers, The Cookies, Cynthia Sheeler, The Moments, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Tino G, and the Howling Diablos.

David Kunian is playing music in honor of the recently departed Stanley “Buckwheat Zydeco” Dural Jr. and of the birthdays of Bruce Springsteen, John Coltrane, Ray Charles, Les McCann, Ani DeFranco, and Earl Turbinton with the Wild Magnolias, plus cuts by Bad Brains and The Meters.

Monday, November 7ALL ABOARD
JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 678

Episode 678 is coming from Dr. Bob’s Psychedelic Healing Shack at Woodward & Goldengate in the north end of Detroit—future home of Coffeeshop John Sinclair—and I’ve got part three this week of my homage to the great 20th century masters of music & verse: Nobel Prize-winning composer Bob Dylan, the 90-year-old genius Chuck Berry, and the great guitarist, singer & composer McKinley Morganfield, professionally known as Muddy Waters, introduced to the music-loving public by Chess Records co-founder Phil Chess, who recently passed away at the age of 95. So here’s an hour of Muddy Waters on Aristocrat & Chess Records, owned & operated by Phil & Leonard Chess. This program is dedicated to the Chess brothers and to my own late father, Jack Sinclair, born in 1910.

George Klein concludes his presentation of music from Riverside and Jazzland Records in the 1950s & 60s by artists including the Montgomery Brothers, The Jazz Messengers, Clark Terry with Thelonious Monk, Charlie Byrd, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt, and Bobby Timmons.

SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS
ANCESTOR WORSHIP 15

Episode 15 offers another thrilling installment of classic jazz from 1956 mined from the seven-disc set called The Complete Prestige Recordings of Sonny Rollins, featuring the Clifford-Brown-Max Roach Quintet and selections from the album accurately titled Saxophone Colossus..

Friday, November 11BIG TIME OPERATORS
SOUNDS OF BLUE 21

Bob Putignano is back with a stellar hour of music by big time operators like Howard Wales & Jerry Garcia, Stanley Turrentine with Milt Jackson, the Gene Harris Quartet, Van Morrison with John Lee Hooker, Larry Goldings, Herbie Mann, Archie Bell & the Drells, and Roy Buchanan.

FUNKY STREET
THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 66

Lucille DJ is back on the air from controradio-fm in the heart of Italy with another killer hour of soul & super heavy funk and a guest spot from John Sinclair with tunes by Arthur Conley, Ghetto Kitty, Marva Whitney, Betty LaVette, Lou Johnson, Glass House, Ann Sexton, The Bar Kays, Grady Tate, The Modulations, The Undisputed Truth, Vernon Garrett, Dizzy Gillespie, and Daronda.

Saturday, November 12DUCK SOUP
THE DR. DOO WOP SHOW 20

Dr. Doo Wop is spinning on Radio 100 in Amsterdam just following the bombings of America on 9/11/2001 with a program of music and weirdness featuring The Charmers, Bill Levy, Groucho Marx, Slim & Slam, The Crystals, The Ambassadors, The Jaguars, Roy Hamilton, The Golden Chords, Nathaniel Lewis Singers, Jet Powers, Shep & The Limelites, and a couple of unidentified artists along the way.

David Kunian is playing birthday music by the Rebirth Brass Band in honor of Allison Miner plus September 23 birthday salutes to Bruce Springsteen, John Coltrane and Earl Turbinton and cuts by Amanda Shires, Jason Isbell, and the recently departed Buckwheat Zydeco.

Monday, November 14ZENTA NEW YEAR
JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 679

Episode 679 will be coming from the 1XRUN gallery on Gratiot Avenue across from Eastern Market in Detroit, recorded on the Zenta New Year with music from the MC-5 and other Motor City artists yet to be selected.

Bob Putignano is wailing in Episode 22 with music by Howard Wales & Jerry Garcia, The Crusaders, Pat Martino, the Felix Cabrera Band with Jimmy Vivino, Miles Davis & John Lee Hooker, and John Lee Hooker with Santana.

Episode 16 presents another big helping of classic Sonny Rollins Prestige recordings by his quartets & quintets from 1956 taken from the seven-disc set called The Complete Prestige Recordings of Sonny Rollins.

Friday, November 18TRAGIC MAGIC
SOUNDS OF BLUE 23

Bob Putignano is remembering Gene Wilder in Episode 23 with Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles Theme” and playing music by The Outlaws plus live performances by Quicksilver Messenger Service and Traffic at the Fillmores East and West.

Dr. Doo Wop is cooking with music played for Radio 100 in Amsterdam at the end of 2001 by a passel of unidentified artists and The Teens, Bob Seger, The Six Teens, Bill Levy, The Chordettes, Frankie Avalon, and Richard Berry & The Pharaohs.

David Kunian is throwing down in Episode 99 with music by Egg Yolk Jubilee, The Old 97’s, Fox & The Hound, Gary Negbar, Orchestra Morphine, The Meters: The New Orleans Suspects, Z.Z. Top, Luke Winslow King, Drive-By Truckers, Jason Isbell, The Tango, and Lydia Loveless.

Monday, November 21BYE-YA
JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 680

If all goes according to plan I’ll be in Paris and then Athens before arriving in Amsterdam on November 20, so Episode 680 will be coming from one of these great cities but there’s no way of knowing quite yet which one.

Bruce Pingree is playing music for Father’s Day by Roosevelt Sykes and Sunnyland Slim plus recordings featuring the recently departed Chess Records drummer Morris Jennings with Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and Willie Dixon and a series of recordings associated with Memphis guitarist/composer/producer Chips Moman by Carla Thomas, Aretha Franklin, James Carr, William Bell, Bobby Womack, and The Veltones.

Bob Putignano is right on time with music in Episode 24 from Howard Wales & Jerry Garcia, The Felix Cabrera Band with Jimmy Vivino, Traffic, the soundtrack of Frankenstein, and a concert called A Celebration for Jim Capaldi & Traffic.

Thursday, November 24RHUMBA NHUMBA
BEYOND THE GROOVE YARD 152

George Klein presents another hour of music with a Caribbean flavor by Walter Davis Jr, the Panorama Jazz Band, Los Gatos, Kermit Ruffins, Wes Montgomery, the Jazz Crusaders, Chico Hamilton, and Eddie Palmieri.

WAY OUT WEST
ANCESTOR WORSHIP 17

Episode 17 finishes up our long investigation into the early recordings of Sonny Rollins, closing with the Sonny Rollins Quintet with Kenny Dorham on Prestige in 1956 and the Sonny Rollins Trio sessions in Los Angeles in 1957 for Contemporary Records with Shelley Manne on drums and Ray Brown on bass for the album titled Way Out West.

Friday, November 25TWILIGHT ZONE
SOUNDS OF BLUE 25

Bob Putignano is cruising through space this week with Howard Wales & Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, Henry Kaiser, and music from television’s greatest hits.

GIMME SHELTER
THE SOUL LUCILLE SHOW 68

Lucille DJ is on the air from controradio-fm in the heart of Italy with a killer hour of soul & super heavy funk and a guest spot from John Sinclair with tunes by Tommy Neal, Joe Bataan, Marion Black, Pat Hunt, S.O.U.L., The Main Ingredient, Willie Hutch, Merry Clayton, Blue Mitchell, MFSB, Sweet Charles, and Herbie Mann

Leslie Keros is back in Episode 4 of Mood Indigo with another hour of soulful jazz by Rhoda Scott, Louis Smith, Stanley Cowell, Poncho Sanchez, David Torkanowsky, Brother Jack McDuff, George Cables, and Bobby Broom, plus another birthday salute to B.B. King.

GONZO
JAZZ LUNATIQUE 100

David Kunian is kicking them out in this milestone Episode 100 with music from Egg Yolk Jubilee, The Police, Prince, Nicholas Payton, the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, Domenic Ferrinacci, Madeline Peyreau, a salute to Nobel Prize for Literature recipient Bob Dylan, and a closing cut from James Booker.

Monday, November 28ON THE ROAD
JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 681

Back in Amsterdam for the winter, Episode 681 will be coming from one of our usual haunts, probably the 420 Coffeeshop on the Singel canal, with a program of music and patter yet to be determined.